Skyeater Rewake (In A Universe Without Stars #1)

Blood red skies. Mysterious powers. Two story tall humanoids raining down from the heavens. Aliens claiming to be gods…and Cole is the only one who can stop them.

All Cole wanted was a normal life, but when his dark thoughts get in the way, he turns to exercise, the only thing that could make him sane. But when he's crippled in a car accident, he tries to end it all with a bottle of pills, but instead wakes up healed, inhumanly strong, and able to create energy in the palm of his hand. Mystified, he experiments with his new abilities and seeks an explanation.

An answer that defies all logic comes when towering humanoid aliens descend from space. When the aliens go on a massacre, Cole employs his newfound powers to thwart the enemy. Convenient? Definitely.

Someone is using him as a pawn in an alien war amongst gods: one with Earth as the prize and humanity's extinction as a consequence, with the ultimate plan to destroy the universe and create a new one. Cole is determined to win the war, escape his dark past, and regain control before the fate of the world is sealed forever.

The story of Skyeater written in past tense.